Great Leaving the Night's Watch

Chapter 185 The price of sweet potatoes is dozens of times higher than before

"The generalissimo will take over and set off!"

At the solemn swearing-in ceremony, the [-] troops were ready to go, and all the food, grass and military equipment had been prepared.Shi Bin, the emperor of Dali Dynasty, handed the commander seal to Yue Fei.

"The minister leads the decree." Yue Fei bowed to receive the commander's seal.

Shi Bin and Baiguan sent ten miles to watch Yue Fei leave the army.

Luoyang is a must.

It is also the hardest place to hit.

If you fight directly from Chang'an, the opponent will definitely increase their troops continuously, and Luoyang City is extremely difficult to conquer.

Now that the grass is growing and the horses are fat, the autumn grain harvest is over, and the morale is high, it is the best time to attack the enemy with all one's strength.

The soldiers all believed that the king's crusade was just.

Especially the swear words:
Attack Luoyang, restore our original existence in Dali, and seize Ruliang Kingdom's original existence!

Look, how happy it is to say!

Luoyang is originally my city from Dali, and it is not your country of Liang in the first place!

Through this extremely righteous jihad, we regain lost ground!Drive out the enemies!
Besides, the emperor also said that if Luoyang is taken down, everyone will be rewarded!

But if you can't fight for a long time and your morale collapses, it will be over.

To fight is to die.

No one wants to die.

If there are countless casualties, and the soldiers, horses, money and food are lost, and they still cannot fight, then the soldiers will feel fear of war and hope to go home early.

They will be desperately homesick, self-mutilate like crazy, and even mutiny.

At that time, there are countless immortals.

The food and grass that Dali had accumulated for several years was destroyed in one fell swoop.

It will be difficult to save so much money.

And if the opponent attacked Da Li while he was weak, Chang An might also lose.

Shi Bin didn't dare to be careless and cautious.

Since ancient times, there are not too many examples where one wrong move can lead to the loss of the whole game.

So he adopted Di Lie's strategy, and at the cost of ten times the cost of transporting grain, he attacked from multiple directions. Yue Fei's troops directly attacked Luoyang and sent troops from Chang'an.

Han Shizhong's troops left Xuchang and left Chenliu.

Xiao Fei defended Xinye and Jingzhou.

Chen Feng is responsible for supplying food and grass to various places.

The gang of fierce generals summoned by the system, since they have the attribute of never betraying, left twenty Sui Du Gu Yi and Qiu Tian Shun to guard Jiangzhou!
This is a grain production base, and it must not be lost!
Xuchang can't be lost either. Hua Mulan personally sits here and commands [-] troops.

All of Shi Bin's belongings can be said to be bet on.

If the war is a gamble, then if he wins the gamble this time, Shi Bin will occupy the area from Luoyang to Taihang Mountain, hold all the water and land key points in his hands, guard Hulao Pass, and all Yongliang soldiers can be transferred to the front line to attack Puyang.

At that time, it is really possible to advance and attack, and to retreat and defend.

If it fails, the food and grass will be exhausted, the whole country will be short of food, and soldiers will be injured everywhere.

If the enemy took advantage of the situation and counterattacked, Shi Bin's happy journey through time would be over.

It is estimated that the emperor will not allow the emperor to surrender, so the best way is to be a beggar to escape the hunt, just dragging his family along with a few beautiful beauties, and being a beggar is easy to be discovered...

No matter, the arrow is on the string, and I have to send it.

Make every effort, do your best, and obey the destiny.

If you don't attack him, you can't just sit back and watch Liang Guo continue to grow.

It has a large territory, and the two sides develop independently. Liang Guo's food storage speed and the speed of accumulating various resources will never explode.

Don't talk about what you have been developing.

People did not rest.

On the way back with Shi Bin leading the crowd, in Yan Village, two teams of players were playing Cuju (the name of ancient football).

Shi Bin especially likes to play football, and even more like to watch football. He used to play football games on PS5, and he enjoyed it even more.

Sometimes even play all night.

Di Lie also likes watching football very much.

They have more in common.

It's useless to worry about the battle situation. It's better to relax and watch the ball.

The red and blue teams attack each other.

The two watched and chatted.

As we chatted, we got involved in the war:
Di Gong said first: "Your Majesty, do you think that Han Shizhong's road can be successful? I worry about this day and night. The enemy has many soldiers, but we are few. We are at a disadvantage everywhere. The people along the way say that we will probably lose. Don't wait until then." Involve them..."

Shi Bin was also anxious, but he had to put on a complacent look to give his subordinates more confidence: "This little setback is nothing, you see that the men's football has played like that, why don't you just eat and sleep well?" Let’s keep calm. We don’t believe in the ball, don’t pass the ball, and don’t make the ball.”

Digong laughed.

He knew that the emperor was actually nervous under his calm appearance.

Living in troubled times, who is not nervous.

If you can't eat the enemy, the enemy will eat you until there are no bones left.

Cuju is a popular entertainment program.

Especially in a big and rich city like Chang'an City, there are many more ways to play than in small cities.

Audiences like a sea of ​​people, gathered together, is a huge market.

Some are selling various snacks, some are gambling, and some are selling various peripheral products, such as a portrait of a certain player.

If you want to make money, you will naturally have to try various methods. It is not easy for these hawkers in hot weather.

There was nothing.

But a shout interrupted Shi Bin's attention.

It even aroused his anger!

"Selling roasted sweet potatoes! 150 coins each!"

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, garlic, cotton and other super-high-yield things, Shi Bin spent so much time and money to compete with the three great families. Before he became emperor, when the night watchmen were at an extremely disadvantaged position—if it wasn’t because of too many wars, The imperial court couldn't take care of it, so it sent troops to kill the night watchman long ago—it took a huge risk to solve the problem of food rations for the people.

The night watchman did this only for the conscience of heaven and earth, and only for the sake of sympathizing with the hardships of the people, who can't have enough to eat, and have to pay heavy taxes!
These grains imported from abroad are super high-yielding. After the fruits are grown, they are nutritious, delicious, and there are many ways to eat them. They are very popular among the people.

Now it is planted everywhere in Dali Dynasty.

It can be planted on any broken ground.

And no one dares to monopolize grain!A large number of grains were even given away for free by the imperial court!

In ancient times, there was not as much tertiary industry as in modern times, and 99% of the people farmed.

Besides, since the production has reached such a high level, to put it bluntly, the price will be cheaper than garbage!
Then why is it so expensive!

Roasting sweet potatoes requires craftsmanship and time, and this part of the cost must be added.

Merchants still have to make money, so you can sell five or six, or even ten.

You have good skills, and the baked ones are softer, softer and sweeter than others, and your sweet potatoes are also bigger, so they can be more expensive. At worst, you only do business for the rich and filter out the poor.

But no matter what, it shouldn't be so expensive.

And Shi Bin looked at the size of the sweet potatoes, they were all the smallest and most deflated.

It's worth five cents at most, nothing more.

Shi Bin remained calm and motioned to Di Gong to investigate.

Di Gong subconsciously touched the gun in his arms.

Because he knew that behind the sweet potato, there must be another scum who committed a damnable crime.

Di Gong went down and casually pretended to be a stranger, and chatted with the local people:
"My fellow, why are your sweet potatoes so expensive?"

"Isn't this squeezing the oil out of the common people?"

"No one dares to care about it? Even if you don't want to go home to eat and waste time to watch the game, it can't be sold so expensive."

Di Gong belongs to the kind of people who can be salty or sweet.

When killing scum, he is merciless.

When talking to the common people, he has a plain face, more simple and honest than Guo Jing.

The people didn't doubt that he was there, and without thinking too much, they revealed the truth: "You don't know the people from other places. There are two Fu brothers here. They are bullies who have been in trouble for many years. In the early years, ferry boats were used to make money, and guests were carried to the middle of the river to kill people and rob money, and when they had money, they became even more lawless."

Di Gong pretended to be afraid, and said, "Why is there such a lawlessness?"

The people told him: "They have more than 100 thugs under their command, all of whom are thieves. They took aim at the sweet potato business, but you also know that this business is government-run. The emperor does not allow others to make money from it. The profiteers entrap the common people. But the Fu brothers, dare not provoke the night watchman, but bribed the lowest-level people who are in charge of distributing grain seeds, they monopolize prices, hoard them, and drink the blood of the common people!"

Di Gong tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart.

The commoner said again: "These two thieves surnamed Fu threatened the people to buy sand, grain seeds, cloth from them, and everything related to the livelihood of the people. They even interfered in buying meat. You have to pay homage to their pier first. They also let it out, saying that they are distant relatives with the current emperor, and no one dares to touch him."

Digong finally revealed a murderous look on his face.

The commoner consciously talked too much, and was afraid of getting into trouble, so he hurriedly said: "I'm leaving first, and you don't want to provoke them, the guests. They killed people and buried them in the back mountain. I don't know how many good people have been killed over the years. You passer-by , don’t get into this troubled water. We can’t afford to mess with him, there’s nothing we can do.”

Di Gong returned to Shi Bin's side and told the whole story about what he found out.

The outline of the matter has already had a preliminary outline:
The thief dares to monopolize the grains that the emperor prohibits price increases!

Use this shameless way to drink the blood of the common people!

He also said that he and the emperor are relatives!Do things that are inferior to animals by yourself, search for the common people, and blame the emperor!He got benefits and made the people hate the emperor!

Taking advantage of the encirclement of the two armies, the garrison of multiple armies to attack the enemy, and the battle on the main battlefield, which consumes a lot of food and grass, how dare he make a fortune for the country!Take the opportunity to fry food prices!
And which commoner would dare to disobey, kill and bury him in the back mountain!

(End of this chapter)